Offender photograph, M. E. Baker, 14 January 1924
Sometimes when looking at one of the many intriguing mug-shot photographs in the museum’s forensic photography collection, it is a detail off to the left or right of the main subject, an accidental or...
View ArticleMugshot, Saddler, details unknown, c1924
The other day I was alerted to a batch of extraordinary photographs from the 1920s by a member of staff at the museum, named Gareth Malone. It was explained to me that these images had been damaged…...
View ArticleEileen O’Connor
Photographed 3 June 1927 at the State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW The care and management of young offenders has always presented difficulties for the police and courts. Authorities are...
View ArticleSarah Boyd
Photographed 10 January 1924 at the State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW During the early 20th century many unmarried or widowed women with children lived in circumstances of abject poverty....
View ArticleJean Harris alias Eileen May Mulholland
Photographed 27 November, 1919 at the State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay . FP07_0215_005 Many criminals give false personal information to police in the hope that their previous convictions will...
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Prisoner identification photographs make up many of the earliest negatives in the collection. Photographed in various institutions across New South Wales the negatives usually record a full frontal and...
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Jean McDonald, 26 June 1924, Central Police Station, Sydney. FP07_0104_004. Jean McDonald was a fraudster and confidence trickster. She looks drab and resentful here but her sob stories were...
View ArticleMatilda Devine aka Tilly Devine
Matilda Devine aka Tilly DevinePhotographed 27 May 1925 at the State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay Tilly Devine stares out from this image taken upon her entry to gaol. She was an incredibly...
View ArticleCons and Kangaroos – Talk by British crime author James Morton
James Morton will give a fascinating talk at the Justice and Police Museum this Saturday, March 26, from 2 pm. Picking up where Crooks like us left off, Morton reveals the antics of some of Australia’s...
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